Shiite And Sunni Quotes

#1. The Iraqi government will try and retake some of the cities have that been captured by ISIS. That means the Shiite government dropping bombs on civilian areas, on Sunni cities. There will likely be a response with car bombings here in Baghdad, and this could be a long fight.

Richard Engel

#2. If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing ... one eats with their left hand, the other eats with their right hand.

Conor Oberst

#3. You never know what you have till you've lost it.

Alyson Noel

#4. For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a Shiite majority.

Richard Engel

#5. A Muslim just follows Allah. Sunni-Shiah? That's farga, the groups - Allah discourages this in the Quran, you know, never ever form the groups.

Michael Muhammad Knight

#6. My dad passed away ... and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom and dad.

Neil Young

#7. Always surround yourself with people who are better than you. If you're hanging around bad people, they're going to start bringing you down ... But, if you surround yourself with good people, they're going to be pulling you up.

Donny Osmond

#8. Shah Ismail had fallen victim to the rarely used, great Uzbek anti-Shiite potato and sturgeon curse, which required quantities of potatoes and caviar which were not easy to amass, and a unity of purpose among the Sunni witches which was likewise difficult to achieve.

Salman Rushdie

#9. The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which arms, trains, and advises them. Their slogan - 'God is great. Death to America. Death to Israel' - could have been written in Persian.

Charles Krauthammer

#10. I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the time.

Rebecca Sugar

#11. Saudi Arabia is a frightened monarchy. It's beset by Sunni extremists from the Islamic State and Shiite extremists backed by Iran.

David Ignatius

#12. There's a reason we eat popcorn during a movie. If I want to zone out, be brainless and entertained, then I watch TV, go to a movie. If I want a good story, then I read a book." "Ah

Penny Reid

#13. Take special note of how people respond to stressful situations - often the mask they wear in public falls off in the heat of the moment.

Robert Greene

#14. Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely Sunni one in the middle, and a Kurdish one in the north.

Richard Engel

#15. It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!

Emma Watson

#16. I won't be a party to a conspiracy to mobilize the Arabs against the Persians. Only the forces of colonialism benefit from such a conspiracy. I won't be a party to a conspiracy that splits Islam into two - Shiite Islam and Sunni Islam - mobilizing Sunni Islam against Shiite Islam.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#17. Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted.

Denise Van Outen

#18. So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

William Odom

#19. An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#20. Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

Benjamin Tucker

#21. Soccer must be played with the heart,not with strength and talent as perceived.

ABC

#22. Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches.

Nicholas Kristof

#23. One cannot escape from the world with greater certainty than through art, and one cannot relate to it with greater certainty than through art.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe